Why “simple fixes” fail, even when everyone wants progress Voice & Vision | Homelessness and the Public Commons, Part 5 | Policy, politics, and fragmentation If you want to watch a city lose faith in itself, pay attention to how it talks about homelessness after the fifth “initiative.” At first, the language
Voice & Vision | Moscow’s Mission, Part 6 | Trust, resilience, and shared reality This series started with a simple but uncomfortable fact. Russia did not need to invent America’s fractures. It only needed to study them, press on them, and wait for us to do the rest. That is
How manipulation moves faster than proof Voice & Vision | Moscow’s Mission, Part 5 | Internet speed, synthetic media, and trust The playbook didn’t need your vote to change. It only needed your feed to speed up. False and sensational claims travel farther and faster than true ones on large
Why homelessness becomes a civic conflict Voice & Vision | Homelessness and the Public Commons, Part 4 | Public space impacts Most people don’t meet homelessness through empathy. They meet it through disruption. If you missed it, here is part 3: The Accelerants. They meet it when the park stops feeling
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Why some people get stuck outside longer Voice & Vision | Homelessness and the Public Commons, Part 3 | Vulnerability There’s a certain kind of homelessness conversation that sounds sympathetic but is actually a dodge. It goes like this: homelessness is a housing problem, full stop. That sentence contains truth. It’
When service outlives the uniform Mostly True Stories | The Last Barstool Series, Part 4 | Belonging, purpose, and the quiet work I don’t go to the VFW anymore. But I think about it more than I expected to. Part 3, What Happened with the VFW Sometimes I wonder if it
Why homelessness grows at scale Voice & Vision | Homelessness and the Public Commons, Part 2 | Structural drivers Part 1 of this series, Homelessness is a Layered Problem. When homelessness rises in a region, people rush to the most dramatic explanations because dramatic explanations feel satisfying. They let you blame someone.
Why it grows even when everyone agrees it should not Voice & Vision | Homelessness and the Public Commons, Part 1 | The framework Homelessness is one of those issues that turns adults into warring tribes fast. Someone says housing, another says drugs, someone else says mental illness, yet others say crime,
When the uniform came and the mission never returned Mostly True Stories | The Last Barstool Series, Part 3 | Purpose, drift, and the empty hall Catch up with part 1, The Disconnect at the VFW. The uniforms came off, but the structure stayed. The ranks, the rituals, the same stories told
How platforms, newsrooms, and government adapted after 2016 Voice & Vision | Moscow’s Mission, Part 4 | Labels, takedowns, and adaptation The last installment of this series, part 3: After the Click, discussed how the U.S. was affected by this assault. This time we discuss what the media and government
America became powerful by making real things, including lives that made sense. Voice & Vision | The Last Shift Series, Part 2 | Manufacturing, dignity, and the middle class In Part 1: The Last Shift, we stood at the factory gate and watched the lights dim. Automation turned a hundred jobs into